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Liz Amaya-Fernandez

@liza-f.bsky.social
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Public health educator, adjunct instructor, doula, poet, intuitive card reader. Watching magic & science hold hands.

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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The fury I feel seeing this country under siege
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Sometimes it is helpful to be married to someone who grew up under authoritarianism & other times it is horrifying.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Saw this tonight & would have enjoyed it more had it not been so eerily current.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
University leadership in U.S. seems to be finally speaking up. That's a good thing, I guess, but we remember their silence regarding attacks on trans folk, DEI, human rights etc. Indirects on grants are important, but I wish it didn't take that to move the people who lead our institutions on issues.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory.” - N. K. Jemisin #poetry
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I’m bringing home books of poetry :: 14 days is not enough time :: I am always paying library fines :: the US flag in the distance in case we forget our location :: a hummingbird souvenir with the Colombian colors in case we want to remember our mothers’ birthplace :: the scent of snow in the air
Car dashboard with three books on it, a bead embroidered hummingbird hanging from rear view mirror that is yellow, blue and red. A brick building in blurred distance with bare trees & an American flag around it.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I’ve been kissing friends :: crying in the shower :: teaching about our history our presence our worth our intuition :: visiting museums libraries parks my mom :: paying attention :: paying attention :: paying attention - life during a coup
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I’ve been picking fights & testing loyalties :: I’ve been reaching out & building blanket forts :: I’ve been kicking rocks & gluing jello onto walls :: I’ve been holding rage like a baby & fanning the fire that fuels my work - life during a coup
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
this made me cry - the sweetness - the realness
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The overwhelm is so great right now. I need someone to sit with me & gently explain what I need to do right now.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Grateful to have the privilege to be in the classroom with undergraduates. Our conversations bring light into otherwise dark days.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Rarely is everything inevitable. Remember your power.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨 The CDC website is purging resources on LGBTQ+ health, diversity, equity, and health disparities. This is not just a bureaucratic change. It’s a dangerous decision with profound negative public health consequences. Let’s break down the harm this will cause. 🧵⬇️
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Yesterday was A LOT. I have a rage hangover.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It’s been a really hard day. I appreciate all the advice on how to survive these times. Much of it is also sounding patronizing especially when it comes from people with significantly more privilege than me. May I learn from this, so I do not do it to others.
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marianu27.bsky.social @marianu27.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I've revised the Strategy Triage Tool I created early in the pandemic to help clients navigate our upside down world. We're in another one of those moments when everything shifts and upends the systems we work in. The Triage Tool can help you regroup. Take a look and please share it widely!
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Clearing the Table to Move Forward: A System Tool for Strategy Triage - Center for Community Investment
There are moments when everything shifts—when a disaster hits, funding changes overnight, a crisis demands “all hands on deck,” or policy changes upend the systems we work in. In these moments, the im...
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Sometimes love is exhausting.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Do people even understand the meaning of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, justice? Decades of doing this work, I know many really smart & kind people do not.
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S Bear Bergman @sbearbergman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I am posting this not just because my husband is a damn genius (though he is) but because I think a whole heck of a lot of people are very reasonably worried about this right now, and this trans-led workshop will be helpful:
Webinar
PARENTING TRANS KIDS IN TOUGH TIMES
January 30, 2025 (Thursday)
4PM - 5:30PM PST
EVENT DETAILS
Policies and laws that deny transgender kids recognition, inclusion, support and access to gender affirming healthcare have been passed in many U.S. States as well as the Canadian Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Parents of trans kids in states and provinces where anti-trans policies and laws have been adopted and those who live in 'safe places for now but fear this changing are understandably very concerned about the safety and wellbeing of their kids. Anti-trans laws and policies are not supported by evidence but they signal to the public that transgender kids are an appropriate target for hostility and exclusion. Scholarly research indicates that best practices for the well-being of transgender kids (and cisgender kids too) include the right of all children to gender self-determination, the importance of family support and advocacy, the appropriateness of institutional support and inclusion, and access to affirming healthcare for kids who need it.
The purpose of this webinar is to provide parents of trans kids with resources to help you understand the current political moment and support and advocate for your kids.
PANELISTS
Dr. Travers
Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser University
Dr. j wallace skelton
Assistant Professor of Queer Studies in Education, University of Regina
Mandy Giles
Founder of Parents of Trans Youth
SCAN QR CODE TO REGISTER
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“The conditions have been set for years” - Dr. Crenshaw provides us with tools for the resistance. youtu.be/vG3buxRIslQ?...
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Kimberlé Crenshaw at the National Urban League Demand Diversity Emergency Session on DEI
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Officially received nonsense letters from my employers about executive orders. Flashback to March 2020 & their nonsensical communication about covid. (Different employers/same system) Why doesn’t higher Ed consult their own experts?
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
& people told me we were “safe” in NJ… I hate it when my concerns are justified. Over & over again this week for sure…
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“We will need them to tell the truth”
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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Day ONE the Trump administration made it crystal clear where their priorities lie: censoring info & cutting off access to reproductive healthcare. They have taken down buff.ly/3QRO4PD, but there are still resources from activists for legal support & health/abobo info. buff.ly/3Cfq0DO
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/01/2025
What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change? Wearing a mask.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
♥️
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence @sfsisters.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
To all trans people: Your lives matter. Every step you take toward living as your true self is a testament to the strength & resilience within you. You are deserving of love, respect, & kindness. Never forget that you are valid, worthy, & more than enough, just as you are. Keep shining! ♥️🙏🏻♥️
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This means, and has always meant, that we the people gather and grow. Gather tight in your communities, and grow tactics and strategy. I know it seems impossible, but we will be building incredible community in the coming years. We have been building strategy to meet this very moment. 🌊🌊🌊
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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This is not simply an attempt to ban an app. It is a full-fledged attack on people’s community building with no stopgap in place to curb the U.S. oligarchy at its highest levels.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
This.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Really looking forward to this webinar & pretty much everything by @alexispauline.bsky.social
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I feel like I am supposed to only post about how righteous & angry I am right now, yet all I want to do is chat about what makes our hearts blossom.
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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
My advice is to folks who are feeling deep stress over the political climate. If possible, unplug. Go outside. Physically, go outside and spend some time there, be present with the external world. If possible, connect with people you care about. Be present in the current moment.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Perhaps this can be applied to humanity. It’s not one individual; it’s all of us. And sometimes we need to build in subtle, unseen ways so we can withstand even the most destructive of forces. I like that.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Yesterday an old friend from Louisiana told me about bald cypress trees, how they can form roots 25 feet horizontally underground and the roots can’t be linked to one individual tree. They are a network. They withstand hurricanes too! I think that’s beautiful so I wanted to share it.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I went to a glass fusion workshop with my coworkers. This is supposed to be a votive but I have other plans. Do you see my vision?
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
No matter how many times I look out a window & see this view, I experience wonder & awe. I am committed to fill my cup daily.
View from an airplane window of an airplane wing over clouds at dusk.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Old classic, new platform.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We are feeling kinda judgy recently.
Black kitty peeking through white blinds
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AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ @auntren.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
You absolutely cannot!
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Best thing that happened to me this year was this kitty being brought home by my son.
Black cat, eyes closed in a brown box on a black table.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/11/2024
We're featuring an episode from NPR's science podcast Short Wave about what happens in our brains during conflict: Why it tempts us to shut down, and how we can navigate difficult conversations—political or otherwise—without losing control.
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The Science of Disagreeing Well : Up First from NPR
What turns a playful debate into an angry, tearful argument? Or a cheerful Thanksgiving feast into a frosty dessert? America is heading into the holiday season after a divisive election season. So we're featuring an episode from NPR's science podcast Short Wave about what happens in our brains during conflict: Why it tempts us to shut down, and how we can navigate difficult conversations—political or otherwise—without losing control.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
Book cover light blue, cloud-like with Anger in center and Thich Nhat Hahn on top Wisdom for Cooling the Flames on bottom
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge
Book cover black background reads, The Prisoner’s Wife a memoir “A powerful and provocative book-everyone should read it.”- Angela V. Davis
Picture of author, Black woman, wearing a head covering
asha bandele, Author of Daughter
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New story about the expansion of detention in New Jersey. Despite laws passed to end detention, the Biden administration and private prison contractors have been intervening to reopen a shuttered jail, Delaney Hall. documentedny.com/2024/11/20/i...
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New Immigration Detention Center Set to Open in New Jersey
With bids now open for a facility in Newark, immigrant rights groups are voicing concerns.
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Liz Amaya-Fernandez @liza-f.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I will never again have impostor syndrome.
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